Quit coal – save the climate. It’s a simple message, but it’s also an urgent one. Coal, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels is the single greatest contributor to the climate crisis. In 2008, we’ve been taking the “quit coal” message across the world, the campaign has been spearheaded by our flagship the Rainbow Warrior. […]

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High-tech smuggling operations may not be what you’d normally associate with the ongoing clearance of the Amazon rainforest, but logging companies intent on plundering it for timber have been using hackers to break into the Brazilian government’s sophisticated tracking system and fiddle the records.     Full Story…

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Lots of cool new papers in PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases today. My picks are under the fold, but you look around and see what you are interested in:
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I don’t particularly enjoy having needles poked into my scalp and neck and shoulders and temples and I especially don’t like having them poked into my forehead just above my eyebrows. Yet I allow my neurologist to turn me into a pincushion every three months because regular botox treatments subdue my migraines, and nothing else […]

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